Employers owe a duty of care to their team no matter where they are working and properly carrying out a risk assessment will help employers to fulfil their legal duties in this respect. A Risk Assessment should cover the hazards that are likely to be found in a normal home where home working is not…
The three categories of employment status are employee, worker and self-employed. When considering the status of ‘casual workers’, the key question is commonly whether they are employees or workers.Employers often use the term ‘casual’ interchangeably with ’employee’ and ‘worker’. Under the Employment Rights Act 1996, ’employee’ and ‘worker’ are two different categories of status, with…
Rishi Sunak announced on 12th May 2020 that the Coronavirus Scheme will be extended until the end of October 2020. Until the end of July there are no changes, however, from August to October 2020, the scheme will continue on the basis that furloughed employees can be brought back part-time. If you need further information…
It is first worth clarifying that a job is made redundant, rather than an employee.If a number of people do that job, then there is a requirement to select the employees to be dismissed due to redundancy from those people. However, if there is just one person doing the job, there is no valid selection…
Can I rotate employees on Furlough leave? Yes. Employees can be put on furlough more than once so employers can, for example, place employee A on furlough, while Employee B continues to work. Then employee B can be put on furlough while employee A comes back to work. Employee A can then be furloughed again……
Changes to contracts of employmentFrom 6 April 2020, written statements of employment particulars must: Be issued to all workers – currently, only employees are entitled to written statements; Be issued on or before the first day of employment – currently, employers have two months from the start of employment to issue the statement; Be issued…
Employers can only choose to opt out of the statutory sick pay (SSP) scheme if they operate their own scheme, such as continuation of wages or, payment of occupational sick pay at or above the SSP rate.Details of the organisation’s sickness provisions should be included in employees’ Employment Contract or, within the Employee Handbook. Non-payment…
Reducing pay would be a variation of an employees’ contract of employment. Employers cannot unilaterally vary a contract of employment.This decision is therefore one the employees in question would need to consent to. They are not obliged to give their consent, and, could take legal action to prevent such a change. In International Packing Corporation…
To ensure equality in the shortlisting process, the key is to base all decisions on an objective assessment of the applications or CV.The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) code recommends that employers build the following best practice guidelines into their selection procedures: have more than one person involved in shortlisting applicants to reduce the…
Before June 2014, employees needed to meet fairly fixed eligibility requirements in order to have the right to request flexible working, such as having caring responsibilities for either a child or an adult in need of care.Now, to be eligible to request flexible working, an employee only needs to have served 26 weeks’ continuous service…